Maimonides: Rationalist or Mystic?

It was the Ari who said R. Chayim Vital was a gilgul (a reincarnation) of the Maggid mishneh [commentary on Maimonides] Reply

Since the esteemed Rav and Scholar was discoursing on the interplay and possible wellsprings of Chassidic/Mystical Thought in the earlier Rationalist/Hashkafic/Philosophical disciplines, I would add that the concept of Elokus does have a precedent as well in the Kuzari by the Great Sage Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi. Reply

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